Dee Dee Bridgewater with Theo Crocker’s DVRK FUNK Band

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Dee Dee Bridgewater

with Theo Crocker’s DVRK FUNK Band

Iridium, NYC, January 2, 2015

Reviewed by Annamaria Alfieri for Cabaret Scenes

bridgewater_8981The day after “Universal Hangover Day” requires star power and pure jazz energy to create excitement. Dee Dee Bridgewater and DVRK FUNK Band had what it takes. The opening instrumental, “The Fifth Dimension,” began as a showcase of individual talents, but ended with a nice, tight duet by Theo Crocker (trumpet) and Irwin Hall (saxophone), promising what was to come. Once Bridgewater joined in with Mongo Santamaria’s “Afro Blue,” the group coalesced in a big way, also including solo turns by Crocker and Michael King on piano. Bridgewater gave Cole Porter’s “Love for Salea seductive and mirthful voice, scat singing in call and response with Crocker and Hall.

Her “Save Your Love for Me,” spoke straight from the heart. “I’m kinda literal,” she said.
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The international crowd read her and loved it. She made plenty of room for individual talents of the musicians. In “Fine and Mellow” she channeled Billie Holiday and then, in her own words, “deconstructed Billie” in a trumpet voice that imitated a muted Clark Terry. Abbey Lincoln’s “The Music Is Magic” turned things contemplative, but then the evening ended with a swinging “A Foggy Day (in London Town)” that brought out a brilliant solo by bassist Eric Wheeler and long drum riff by Kass Overall that reached altered states of consciousness.
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Annamaria Alfieri

Annamaria Alfieri is the author of four acclaimed historical mysteries, including the current Strange Gods, which takes place in British East Africa in 1911 and is described as Out of Africa meets Agatha Christie. Writing as Patricia King, she also is the author of five nonfiction books, including Never Work for a Jerk, that landed her on the Oprah Winfrey Show. She is a past president of Mystery Writers of America, New York Chapter, and Vice President of the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. She is a life-long fan of the American Popular song.